For perhaps the first time in Grammy Award history, the winner of the Best New Artist Grammy is actually an artist. East Portland’s hot, young and talented jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding surprised everyone by beating out Youtube sensation and all around nice guy, Justin Bieber. Immediately after her victory, outraged Bieber fans hacked Esperanza’s Wikipedia …
It also slightly resembled a pod for the “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” pod people…
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A fictional mashup of reenacted 80s teen movie moments, cliches woven into a single apotheotic trailer for a never to be made video game movie.
George Jones – Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown?
This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s from BoingBoing.net, which describes it thusly: “An excerpt from transmedia artist Anthony Discenza’s “Charlton Heston: The Future has Already Been Written,” that “fuses Planet of the Apes, Omega Man, and Soylent Green. The 3 films (in their entirety) are visually alternated with each other every 1/10 …
Cake performed this tune recently on Conan:
This won’t be for everyone, but it’s definitely art. Gotta love the Rickenbacher fuzz bass:
Howlin’ Wolf—“Spoonful” (Chess 1960, 2:45) The day before I flew home to Montana from Providence (23 May 1982) I found a very useful, cartoon-jacketed, budget-line blues sampler—America’s Musical Roots—that contained many of the most famous singles ever to appear on Chess Records, this one foremost among them. Nothing about the chundering roar of Cream’s infamous …
There’s something timeless about this. Produced by Pink Floyd’s guitarist, David Gilmour, you’ll hear unmistakeable Floydian guitar at the end of the track.
“Her name is Alexa Wolf, a sexy assassin with a troubled past.” “Watch out bad guys, she’ll bang ya, but then she’ll hang ya…”
Country is EPB’s kind of thing and this song has stuck with me for 20 years. I still hold with the thought that Steve Goodman’s “You Never Even Called me by my Name” is the best country song ever, but this combination of New Orleans (search Jimmy C. Newman) and Nashville is a good one. …
A song which asks the musical question, “How do you like your eggs? Fried or fertilized?” One of his more salacious previous efforts: Lemme Smang It .
Yaadon Ki Baaraat – Lekar Hum .
New Shakira out recently. Title translates to “The Sun Comes Out.” Tune starts out slow, swells into a solid, surprisingly trad-rock (given the singer’s success with newer dance music formats), pop tune. I’ll admit that when they modulate on the last bridge (2:48, right before she rips her turtleneck apart. Honest.) it’s the oldest cliche …
The X-Men: First Class trailer is out today:
“People Get Ready, there’s a train a’ comin’,” Curtis Mayfield sang, and the well-prepared passengers in this video would understand his sentiments completely, if not his English. Here’s video from Myanmar of a train running so far behind schedule that it has no time to stop when it reaches the station. Passengers and their bags …
This hilarious fluffernut exceeds expectations way more than I could have guessed. New York Knicks Landry Fields is posing as a Modell’s store employee and trying to sell his own shirt. The guy’s a natural comic. The customers must be really slow because anytime anyone ever sees an NBA player in real life, it’s obvious …
This is a popular vid from this morning. Some enterprising geek has found a way to make his old school floppy drives play out Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. If this version is not to your liking, here’s a better known version from the Disney Film, Fantasia. Here’s an excellent organ version by …